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ExpressCard (AKO PCMCIA) to //

I've just received an eval board that's driven through a // port (what do they think?)

Now my first thought went to USB->// adapter, but this doesn't work (antique SW and proprietary driver).

Before I commit to find some 2nd hand PC with a genuine //port, I thought I coud give a try to an ExpressCard //port adapter.

Googling the hell out of this I found that not all cards are recognised as genuine //port and some are enumerated as USB device. Groan...

Someone with experience about this that can tell me which chipset (or card model) is seen as a real //port?

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Fred.
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Fred Bartoli
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The IBM Monochrome/Printer card works great. You do have to add a jumper wire to make it bidirectional, but I've done a bunch of those and have the directions someplace.

Or were you looking for something more recent? ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(Former owner of a box of hacked monochrome/printer cards, now reduced to FTDI USB-serial for m)

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Phil Hobbs

You'll need a PCI card. The SIIG cards usually work. Don't know about PCI-e

Cheers

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Martin Riddle

Ah. Humor.

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John Larkin

When you've been spending your time reading depositions, redacted DOD contracts, expert reports, and patents both turgid and maddeningly repetitive, anything is a help. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Phil Hobbs

Having written proposals and nastygrams all week, yes.

Pity you can't bit-bang USB parallel ports. More and more, x86 chips are electrically closed systems. They have DRAM, USB, and PciExpress interfaces.

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Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
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John Larkin

My laptops are essentially *only* used for this sort of thing (I seldom do work "away from my workstations" that doesn't involve some sort of "interfacing").

I've a 2.6GHz P4 with serial, parallel, USB, Type I/II PC Card,

3" floppy, DVD-RW, VGA, TV-Out (SVideo), firewire, v.90/92 modem, 10/100 ethernet, headphone/microphone, PS/2 keyboard/mouse, WiFi. It covers most of the "interfacing" needs that I face -- but it's heavy (about 7-8 pounds!). And, no BT or HDMI (I can usually work around these by using one of the tablet PC's -- equally portable)

I've a dinky little ~700MHz box that is similarly equipped for things like serial port and parallel port work. It was a "rescue" so if it grew legs I wouldn't worry too much (though I'd sorely miss all the cables and adapters that I store in its carrying case!)

And, an ancient "Portable 386" that I use when I need to read/write

5" media. (8" media is considerably harder, but still doable)
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Don Y

Were they formerly know as Prince?

How genuine do you need?

That's what expresscard socket is, a slot with (electrically) a USB

2.0 and a PCIe conector at the base.

Just google PCIe parallel port IC then cross those results with "expresscard"

(not that that's a guarantee that a real port is good enough, I recetly received a UPS driver that required an ISA bus on the serial port. That was not as bad as the "UPS driver" that coudn't actually communicate with any UPS.

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Jasen Betts

Le Fri, 20 Sep 2013 23:03:57 +0000, Jasen Betts a écrit:

Thanks, that helped the decision of buying another PC (Dell) with a real parport.

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Fred Bartoli

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